A Great Sounding Gig

Though for the first time in at least 15 years, The Great Plotnik and NoeValSal did not write a new lampoon Christmas song for the party, Sal had the party anyway and it was as much fun as always. Amazingly, the woman next to Barb is Jeff K.'s daughter Natalie, who you will notice is now taller than everybody else, including her Mom Louise who is hiding in back of Heidi.

Hiding in back of Heidi. This is called an Euphonious Accident.

Why didn't that new Christmas song get written? Probably because Plot and Sal always wait until the last moment, but this year the party was questionable until the very very last. We ran out of time. But Plottie promises two new songs for next year.

Nice people. Because of the Noe Valley Voice, Plot and Duck have made some good friends, friends they see every Labor Day and Christmas, while always making solemn promises to hang out together more in the coming year. But it never happens. Why is that, anyway? This reclusive way of living made sense when kids were small and there really was no extra time. But now there's no excuse, just bad habits.

There was a woman there last night named Corrina, once Sal's neighbor, who got a job as an acupuncturist on a small luxury yacht that took her all around the world for over a year -- LA to Tahiti to Indonesia to Australia to Singapore to India to the Middle East to the Mediterranean to England and finally to New York. How about that for a gig?

How many times could Plotnik play "New York, New York" before he jumped overboard and drowned himself? The number is probably higher now than it used to be.